paltryadjective
uk/ˈpɔːl.tri/us/ˈpɑːl.tri/(of an amount of money) very small and of little or no value:
Student grants these days are paltry.
The company offered Frazer a paltry sum, which he refused.
of little quality or value:
She made some paltry excuse and left.
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Scarce, inadequate and not enough
- be at a premium idiom
- be thin on the ground idiom
- dearth
- deficiency
- deficient
- gold dust
- lacking
- late
- long on sth and short on sth idiom
- lousy
- meagre
- measly
- nearly
- rare
- scarce
- scarcity
- shortage
- shortfall
- sparse
- thin
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Small amounts of money
Not of good quality